in the Bible Sarah gets pregnant
when she’s like a hundred years old
and she’s not supposed to be having
children and that’s what she names
her son.
Isaac’s birth pushed me even
further away. I visited less and less.
Then I popped by one afternoon
and the house was in chaos, police
cars out front, the aftermath of
another fight.
He’d hit her with a bicycle. Abel
had been berating one of his
workers in the yard, and my mom
had tried to get between them. Abel
was furious that she’d contradicted
him in front of an employee, so he